title: Parental TV viewing, parental self-efficacy, media equipment and TV viewing among preschool children.
abstract: This study examined if parental TV viewing, parental self-efficacy or access to media equipment were associated with TV viewing among UK preschool-aged children. Data were derived from a cross-sectional survey of 252 parents of 3-5-year-old children. Parents reported child and parent TV viewing and the number of TVs, DVDs, computers, games consoles, hand-held games consoles, music players and laptop computers in the home. Parents also completed scales which assessed their self-efficacy to limit the screen viewing (SV) and promote the physical activity (PA) and their own PA self-efficacy. Analysis indicated that around two thirds of the children spent two or more hours per day watching TV while 75 % of parents watched ≥ 2 h of TV per day. Logistic regression models showed that children who had a parent who watched ≥ 2 h of TV per day were over five times more likely to also watch ≥ 2 h of TV per day. Each unit increase in parental self-efficacy to limit SV was associated with a 77 % reduction in the likelihood that the child watched ≥ 2 h of TV per day. Each additional piece of media equipment in the home was associated with a 28 % increase in the likelihood that parents watched ≥ 2 h of TV per day.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Family-based interventions focusing on changing access to home media equipment and building parental self-efficacy to reduce child TV viewing could form part of efforts to reduce TV viewing among preschool children.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, 8 Priory Rd, Bristol, BS8 1TZ, UK, russ.jago@bris.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Russell
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jago
authors.forename: Simon J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Sebire
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: Janice L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Thompson
mesh_terms: D002652:Child Behavior; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003201:Computers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004739:England; D015444:Exercise / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D010332:Paternal Behavior; D057185:Sedentary Behavior; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013690:Television / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018910:Video Games / Q000706:statistics & numerical data